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The Use of Asteroids for Determinations of Masses and other fundamental constants
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
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This report does not attempt to review all past and present work using asteroids for determinations of planetary masses and other fundamental constants. This would be a very large undertaking, and too extensively outside of the scope of a colloquium devoted to physical studies of minor planets. It seems preferable to concentrate more on principles involved, while mentioning only some of the various results obtained. At the same time, it will be appropriate to take note of the changed situation resulting from the recent development of certain modern methods and facilities that make it possible to determine some of the constants more accurately in other ways, thus partly eliminating the once dominant role of the minor planets.
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- Part I-Observations
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 12: Physical Studies of Minor Planets , 1971 , pp. 13 - 23
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- Copyright © NASA 1971